| ▲ | ryandrake 20 hours ago |
| The OS / UI toolkit should be strongly opinionated, making the consistent, happy path easier to develop and making customization possible but with great effort. |
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| ▲ | lmz 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| No-one would claim building a web browser is easier than putting some widgets together in Win32/Cocoa/GTK+/whatever, yet here we are with Electron. |
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| ▲ | bigstrat2003 19 hours ago | parent [-] | | But people would claim that it's easier for a company to take a bunch of web frontend devs and have them develop a UI which rides on top the already-existing Electron. Which is why we have such a plague of bloated Electron apps - because companies are lazy and don't care about the end user experience. | | |
| ▲ | lmz 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, yes. Just saying that once you make draw calls and raw input events available they will be used against you. |
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| ▲ | SR2Z 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But you're describing pretty much every UI toolkit! |
